Can activities on the Common App be changed after submission to a college?

Applying to College
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<p>If I submit my Common App to college A on November 1st, would I be able to change my activities if need be before I have to submit the application to the rest of my colleges? Or does it get locked? (I know I can't change it for college A after submission obviously)</p>

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<p>Yes, once you submit your application to one school, you can make alternate versions of the CA and make changes for sending to other colleges.</p>

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<p>When you say make alternate versions, do you mean that I have to make a new account? Or can I simply go to the activities tab and click edit like I do now?</p>

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<p>You will be able to just go to the activities section (or any section) and make changes. The only part of your app that locks into a version after a submission is the main essay. After submitting to one or more schools, you may unlock the essay and change as much as you want before submitting again. You can unlock a second time and submit a third version, but that third version will be permanently locked and you will not be able to revise the essay further after submitting a third time.</p>

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<p>At about 1:38 into this video, you see how to make changes to the new Common Application that niceday was referring to: [Common</a> App Webinar Part 13: Submitting Your Common App/Changing Your Application](<a href=“http://mytonomy.com/videos/common-app-webinar-part-13-submitting-your-common-appchanging-your-application]Common”>http://mytonomy.com/videos/common-app-webinar-part-13-submitting-your-common-appchanging-your-application)</p>

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<p>Unlike the previous CommonApp, making changes in the current CommonApp after submission is actually a lot easier (assuming you can login). You don’t need to make alternative version, you just edit the information. For essay, you need to unlock it before editing and it will lock again after your next submission. You can only unlock it twice.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the info on the revised CA!</p>

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<p>Thank you all! All the threads I’ve searched so far referred to the old common app so I wasn’t sure how it would work for this years.
@gibby, thanks for the video, haven’t come across it before.</p>